(Damn, diarrhea again. It started yesterday and lasted until today. Thinking about it carefully, Yi Zui hadn't eaten anything strange... until a glass of milk was placed in front of me and I realized it. Yi Zui hadn't had that fresh milk from the dairy in a long time. Could it be related to that...)
When Richard heard Xiao Ran say that Tessa was a Whispered, his first reaction was that there was a traitor within Mithril. After all, only a tiny handful of Mithril's upper ranks knew that Tessa was a Whispered. Most people did not even know what a Whispered was. Otherwise, how could someone who had never truly come into contact with Mithril know that Tessa was a Whispered?
But the next moment, he began to doubt that thought. He glanced at Xiao Ran and El-Elf, thinking, I've long heard that their intelligence-gathering capabilities are formidable. Did they collect this information themselves? Or do they have some special way of identifying Whispered?
First Officer Richard was puzzled, but he said nothing. Tessa, however, could not remain as composed as he was. Amid her surprise, she reflexively asked, "How did you know?"
Xiao Ran chuckled. "Isn't it simple? Someone capable of designing a creation as far ahead of its era as Danner's Son—what else could she be if not a Whispered? Please don't underestimate our intelligence-gathering capabilities. With El-Elf's skills, as long as something isn't physically isolated, he has a chance of hacking into any network. So the things you consider secret may not seem secret to us. We also have our own methods of identification."
Perhaps Mithril also had its own way of identifying Whispered, but in some respects, it might not know more than Xiao Ran did. For example, the Whispered were actually all newborns in